I've been a customer at Kohls ever since it came out. I haven't had any disappointments with Kohls yet until today. I have been looking for some trapper hats/beanie for my cold weather collection. I happened to see this really cute beanie on Kohls' website but this item is no longer available online. So I called up the nearest Kohls' store to ask them to look it up for me. This customer service rep put me on hold because there was 4 people waiting for her. Her name is Brenda by the way. Okay, that's fine. I don't mind. When she came back, she was laughing hysterically. I wonder what was so funny about me being on hold for 10 minutes. Anyway, I told her the UPC code and asked her to look up which store has the item. She told me Santa Ana store has one. Then I told her to transfer me to the department so I can ask somebody to look for it and put it on hold for me. She refused and said "it's only a beanie, and it's on clearance, we don't ask our associates to look for clearance items like this. They have better things to do. If you want it, you have to drive to the store yourself and look for it yourself." I was like, WTF??? Why would I drive all the way to the store to buy a beanie that I'm not sure it's even there to begin with? Isn't that the reason why I called first to make sure it's there??? Hello, moron??? So I told her that I wasn't asking her to look for it, I wanted her to transfer me to that department, that's all I was asking. She again said, "No, I will not transfer me to the department. You have to drive to the store and look for it yourself." So I was like, "Okay, so can you transfer me to the supervisor instead?" She put me on hold for the supervisor, supposedly. I was waiting and waiting forever and no one there. So I hang up and redialed and she was on the phone again. I asked her happened to the supervisor, and this time she managed to put me through. I'm not sure it's the real supervisor or not but his name is Shane. I explained to him what happened. He was like, "oh ok, so what is it that you're looking for again?" I told him I was looking for this beanie and he immediately told me that the whole store doesn't have any winter items. He insisted over and over again that his store doesn't have any beanie. For some reason, I can't seem to believe that.
It seems to me they don't want to waste time looking for small items. Maybe if it were a 2-karat diamond ring I was looking for, I would have had more help. I actually spent a lot of money on Kohls over the years. There were time I bought big ticket items and there is time such as this when I'm only focused on a specific item in mind. Regardless, whether assisting customer with small help or big help, it's good customer service. So what if I'm looking for something $10? Next time, I might buy something $1000. You never know you you offended. So they don't want to look for a $10 beanie for me and ask me to drive to the store to look for $10 beanie, why would I do that? I don't mind driving to the store for a $10 beanie if it's going to be there waiting for me. But why would I drive to every Kohls store to look for a $10 beanie? Which is more convenient? Me wasting time and gas money to drive to the store to look for $10 or Kohls for wasting maximum 5 minutes to look at the hats department and let me know whether they have it or not???
I'm discouraged to buy anything from Kohls ever again. Even if I buy, I'll make sure I buy something that's $5 or less and it's better worth every single penny. Thanks Kohls for having such a rude and discriminative customer service practice.
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